Genshin Impact | "Aestus Ruber Discessit" (Fanmade Rerir Weekly Boss Theme - Phase #1)

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Hey everyone! It's yet again been a while, but I'm back! This time with a new Genshin Impact weekly boss theme for Rerir!

Now before we continue, let me get this out of the way first; yes, I know Rerir already has a boss battle with a boss theme, however it is not a weekly boss. The way I see it is similar to Raiden and actually goes into why I decided to make this in the first place where he has a special fight in the Archon Quest, but will become a weekly boss later. This is a concept theme for a weekly boss version of this fight.

With that clarification out of the way, the reason I wanted to do this is because I found out that Rerir's current boss has an internal weekly boss code, meaning he will become a weekly boss in the future much like Raiden. The theme in his current fight is also much shorter than the actual weekly boss themes, given it is meant for a scripted fight. So in light of all this, I wanted to make a concept for what an actual weekly boss theme for this character would be like.

My idea for this was to start by intensifying the feel of the second phase theme of his current fight, and then layer more leitmotifs and themes relating and surrounding him and his history into it. This led me to including themes such as the Crimson Moon motif (heard both in Arlecchino's phase one theme and the Crimson Moon space in Act III of Nod-Krai), and the theme heard in Rerir's backstory sequences.

Other than that, I also wanted to do some more traditional phase two things that HoYoMiX typically does for fights against characters like this, the main thing being giving the song a lead vocalist. I originally tried to do this myself, it ended up being pretty bad, so I ended up using a program I found called ACE Studio to do it instead and I think it turned out pretty well. The lyrics I made for it will be written below (I did use Google Translate because I am by no means an expert on the Latin language, so a lot of the translations are probably inaccurate). The greek chanting in the segment before the slow-down is me however.

Anyways, as you can probably tell from the title this is a part one. I will make a second phase counterpart to this in the future. Other than that, that's pretty much all there is to say on this theme. Enjoy!

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Lyrics:
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Vocal intro segment:
Luna obscura oritur
(The dark moon rises)

Crimson Moon motif segment:
Fragmenta per desertum dispersa
(The fragments spread across the wilderness)

Eclipsa in nebulam cadit
(Eclipsed, it falls into the mist)

Chanting:
To aíma pou tha réei apó tous polloús tha katakeravnósei ton kósmo
(The blood drawn by the many shall rend the world)

Tha pliróseis to tímima
(You shall pay the price)

Rerir backstory motif segment:
Carissime, cur aufugisti? Ubi?
(Beloved, why did you run away? Where?)

Longe abed a sacra aula
(Far gone am I from the holy court)

Quo ivisti?
(Where did you go?)

Carissime, mendax sum
(Beloved, I’m a liar)

Cur ivisti?
(Why did you go?)

Omnes interfecti
(I killed them all)

Muileres, pueri
(The women, the children)

(Yes these last two lines here is an Anakin reference. I couldn't help it with all the similarities.)

Climax segment:
Solacium numquam inventum
(Solace never found)

Celans quod eram
(Hiding what I was)

Ab inane consumptus
(Consumed by the void)

Lunam venar
(I will hunt the moon)
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Again, these translations are probably not accurate at all, but I at least wanted to honor Genshin's style and try doing these vocals in Latin.

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